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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Kilgore, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Kilgore, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Kilgore. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Kilgore, TX safe?
Kilgore, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 51 out of 100, grade C, below the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 45% of its residents live in neighborhoods graded A or B, compared with 45% statewide. Safety Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates.
- Safety Score
- 51 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 45%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 43%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 18
How Kilgore compares
Kilgore scores 2 points below the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Kilgore's estimated residents live in 2 counties:
- Gregg County 83% of residents · county Safety Score 24, grade D
- Rusk County 18% of residents · county Safety Score 41, grade C
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Kilgore.
Neighborhoods inside Kilgore
18 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Kilgore, 9 of them mostly inside it. Among those 9, the lowest scores 10, the highest 95, and the middle 80% range from 10 to 87.
ZIP codes where Kilgore residents live
Nearly all of Kilgore's estimated residents live in ZIP 75662 (Safety Score 51, grade C). An estimated 56% of that ZIP's residents live outside Kilgore, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 75662 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Longview Safety Score 45 · grade C · 11 miles
- Henderson Safety Score 48 · grade C · 16 miles
- Tyler Safety Score 44 · grade C · 26 miles
- Marshall Safety Score 34 · grade D · 31 miles
- Jacksonville Safety Score 43 · grade C · 37 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Kilgore
Kilgore has an estimated 13,583 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 18.6 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 18 scored Census block groups that lie at least partly within those limits.
How this page is built
ZIP codes are listed by the estimated share of the city's residents who live in them, from 2020 Census block-group population spread evenly over each block group's land. The city score is not an average of ZIP scores.
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